to permit, construct and operate a 1,100-megawatt combined cycle power plant on the Greenpoint/Williamsburg East River waterfront where North 12th St. ends at Bushwick Creek Inlet. The plant would have included 300-foot smokestacks spewing more than 1,000 tons per year of toxic emissions into the local environment, increasing the area’s already high asthma rates and ruining city and state plans for parks and residential and commercial development on the waterfront.

The TGE power plant was eventually defeated,

TGE proposed to permit, construct and operate a 1,100-megawatt combined cycle power plant on the Greenpoint/Williamsburg East River waterfront. The plant would have included 300-foot smokestacks spewing more than 1,000 tons per year of toxic emissions into the local environment, ruining city and state plans for parks and residential and commercial development on the waterfront.